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A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced form a COHERENT PARAGRAPH. Choose the most LOGICAL ORDER of sentences from the choices given to construct a COHERENT PARAGRAPH.
I. The economy’s performance in expenditure terms was even poorer with real GDP contracting by 0.6% after a gain of 0.5% in the October-December quarter.
II. On an output basis—the government’s preferred measure because it is less volatile thin expenditure-based GDP—the economy contracted by 0.3% in real terms from the previous quarter.
III. Data from Statistics New Zealand, a government agency, published on June 27th show an almost uniformly abysmal economic performance in January-March 2008.
IV. This was the first contraction since late 2005, made worse by the fact that the previous quarter’s growth rate was revised down from 1% to 0.8%.
By going option choices we can see that either statement I or III is an opening sentence. But in statement I, it is given that "the economy’s performance in expenditure terms was even poorer with real GDP" i.e. there should be preceding sentence that's the whole reason of comparison.
The contraction that is being talked in statement IV is mentioned in statement II. Hence, we can say that statement II and IV is a mandatory pair. Therefore, we can say that option C is the correct answer.
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